A technomancer's journey in an apocalyptic world

"What is this place? Ugh, the floor is so sticky.", as Angela complained she forcibly managed to free her feet that was stuck to the ground.

Ryan bit his lips as he spoke, "I do not like this place can we retreat?"

"Negative brother we will once we have accessed the true nature of the threat, till try to keep your voice low."

Ryan sighed as he spoke, "Then allow me to take the front I have better eyes."

"Negative just stay behind me Ryan, and if I get stuck too much then use your strength to free me."

"Do as Angela says just stay in the middle and support us from there."

Ryan simply grumbled a bit but followed the orders nevertheless, he took a couple of steps before he whispered back while looking down with barely concealed disgust in his voice, "This stick substance I bet we would stumble upon something dangerous and grotesque."

Michalina spoke with a snort, "It is given but we have to access the threat and plan accordingly otherwise…"

"Otherwise if we would be caught flatfooted if we left a dangerous creature in our backyard while we work.", with a sigh Ryan continued, "I understand but that does not mean I have to like it."

"Stop!!!"'

The duo behind Angela came to an abrupt halt as Angela stood tensed pointing her gun to a certain direction, peering over her shoulder Ryan was greeted to the sight of a group of zombies tied up in what seemed to be cobwebs, zombies seemed to be docile at the moment as while the hung from the ceiling.

When all of a sudden a zombie opened its eyes as it looked at them as it opened its mouth but no sound came out of it, but its restless movements seemed to have awoken the rest who tried to move as well soundlessly, when one of them simply fell off, more like half of its body fell on the floor and what popped out of it would haunt them for a long time, multiple small spiders poured out of the body of the torn zombie.

"Molotov!", Was all Ryan shouted before he flung a lit bottle towards the zombies followed by another unlit bottle.

~boom~

~boom~

"You idiot!", Michalina could not help but swat him hard on his head as she spoke, "Now you will draw the attention of others, we have to move now fast.", she cast a glance at the floor that was catching fire fast as she spoke hurriedly, "Damn this thing is flammable we have to move now."

The trio moved as fast as they could while trying to free their legs from the sticky substance on the floor which was being consumed by fire fast, and as they ran various screeching and screaming came to their ears but they did not stop as they ran with the fire hot on their heels.

A couple of minutes later the group watched as the ruins were surrounded by a blazing inferno, which earned him scathing glares from Michalina and Angela, as such he could not help but speak out loud, "Aww come on sis it worked out perfectly."

"Perfectly my a.."

"Language."

"Stop correcting me, if you had not carried both of us out, then we would have died in the towering inferno, brother you are too callous."

Ryan pouted behind the mask that covered his face as Michalina continued, "I do not know why but even with all of your intelligence, that helped you to make to the top premier Universities in the world, you lack common sense."

Now Ryan was a bit miffed as he immediately protested, "Hey I do not lack common sense."

Angela snorted at that as she spoke, "No you do, you not only lack common sense but you are also reckless always making poor decisions."

"I do not."

"Yes you do brother, you do a lot, and I just hope in the future you make your decisions after careful considerations."

"I always do."

"Really, our life is now like some kind of badly scripted game and you are like an RPG character, with your stats and all those jazz, I fear you might make a bad decision and screw yourself up because I do not think there is anything like reset nor respawns available to you like in a game."

Ryan sighed as he spoke, "Hey I am not bad you know, I might not be the best but still I am good."

Angela could not help but let out a giggle which turned into full-blown laughter while Michalina herself was shaking from mirth as Ryan could not help but speak out in anger, "Hey stop making fun of me, whatever did I say wrong."

Michalina controlled herself as she spoke with mirth shining in her voice, "Did you forget 'The Might of Sword and Magic'? The RPG that came out last year, the one that you were hyped, did you forget all about it brother?"

Ryan blushed heavily at that, a dark chapter of his life as he would often say, an extremely hyped game which his mother got for him, he had created a nifty character after spending hours on customization, a character that had warrior base, and yet he went heavily on increasing its Mana making it so that he could use various techniques many times easily, and it worked for a moment as he was basically the best player who did not have to tear their hair trying to ration out the Mana like others, but then the main problem arose.

At the lower level with low-level weapons, he could spam techniques and win but as the level increased he learned a big flaw about his plans, he could not use better weapons and armour as such he was unable to keep up, after all, what good is spamming techniques would do when you are either not able to hit or unable to do decent damage, but you would die in a single hit, as such he was forced to swallow his pride and restart again by deleting the character and in doing so losing the Premium purchase pass and thus any item and skins he had received by doing preorder purchase were lost.

Michalina sighed as she spoke, "Brother, I know you mean well but please next time think before you do, you cannot afford to be reckless as there would be no second chance here."

"I know sis."

"The reason I am telling you this because you thoughtlessly used fire against something that you have no idea what it might be, the whole place caught fire in a blink of an eye, if it were not for your strength and speed we would have died, not to mention if I had brought the other two then some of us would have died."

A screech was heard as a burning spider somehow managed to escape from the building before it fell on the ground turning into a ball as it died letting out a screech, the spider as big as a car made them gulp in fear but seeing it die made them let out a sigh of relief.

"I hope you understand what I am saying, brother?"

Ryan simply nodded his eyes never leaving the still burning carcass as he spoke with a sigh, "I understand I have to think about the consequences of my actions."

Michalina nodded as Angela continued, "Exactly Ryan, you are a genius boy you made it to a place where countless people can only hope to see it in their dreams, yet because of your bad decisions you might have ended up in a wrong situation and everything would have gone up in smoke, as such try and think before you do anything."

Ryan could only nod as the radio crackled as Jessica's frantic voice came to their ears.

"Something large is moving towards your location fast from the East you have to run, and is your location on fire, I can see the smoke from my place."

Michalina's eyes widen behind her mask as she shouted out, "Move, we have to move fast."

The group of three ran fast only for a large creature to suddenly appear screeching hard as it looked over at the burning in building they could feel the rage and despair in its voice.

"This way that thing is huge we will use the wagons to hide from its sight as we make our escape."

As Angela and Ryan followed Michalina's suggestion, she quickly radioed back the other two riding the 'Goliath', "Jessica whatever you do stay away from this place until we call you, we are making our way towards your location, I do not want to fight a thirty-foot tall spider monster."

The radio crackled as Jessica's voice came to their ears, "Understood, but be careful."

Ryan jumped into the wagon with its door opened before he helped the dup to enter as he spoke, "Should I make a tunnel through them so we can move freely."

"Does it require mana?"

Ryan nodded as Michalina spoke with a sigh, "Negative, do not waste not to mention we have no idea what is inside the wagons for all we know we might intrude into one of its nest."

Ryan frowned as he spoke, "The drain is not too bad and I can safely say that I can make the way and it would be better…", Ryan stopped speaking as his shoulder slouched as he spoke in a tired voice, "It seems we have been caught."

Michalina looked surprised for a moment as she along with Angela turned back and were greeted with the ugliest spider they had ever seen especially the eyes, it had at least a hundred beady eyes that looked at them with fury.

It let out a screech as it slammed on the wagon hard shaking it as the trio tried to maintain their balance, Ryan did not need to be told as he fired his gun towards its direction, he did not need to aim as the bullets hit one of the many eyes making a greenish goop to flow out as with another loud screech it moved away from the door, as Michalina spoke, "Ryan make way."

Ryan quickly opened a whole to the front as the group dashed to the next wagon through it, they could feel their heart hammer as the screeching was getting worse as well as the scratching and sound of breaking that came from around them, Ryan removed a wall as he came to halt, apparently it was the last boxcar wagon.

"Damn it, we will be in the open."

As Ryan cursed their luck the roof gave out as it finally managed to tear it off, its hate-filled eyes gazed at them especially towards Ryan as its drool leaked from its mouth, that was the last thing it saw before it was lit aflame by Ryan.

"Run!"

With that, the trio jumped out of the wagon as they ran towards the distance where they could see the Goliath standing waiting for them, Ryan because of his superior speed was soon able to create a good distance between himself and creature, when he turned aiming he released a hail of bullets towards the spider, he watched as his companions went past him while the damaged creature made its way wobbling towards them when it was near enough Ryan switched and fired the grenade from the grenade launcher.

~Boom~

Followed by a large screech as the spider suddenly hunched before it jumped flying high up and above Ryan who dashed after it, before it landed in front of Michalina and Angela who opened fire only for the bullets to do minimal damage as Ryan's voice came to their ears, "The Eyes aim for the eyes the rest of its body is tough, its eyes are its weakness, and the fire still burning on it use it."

The duo need not be told as they not only attacked with their new guns but tossed few Molotov on the creature that was now burning from head to toe, running and jumping forgetting tits prey only to fall over as the Goliath rammed one of its legs hard toppling it, the group did not wait as they pelted it with quite a few Molotov making it look like a towering raging inferno in the form of a spider, it ran stumbled on obstacles and then once again stood up to run before finally falling overturning into an oversized spider barbecue.

"Damn Molotovs are OP; it took down the Tier 6 so fast."

"Maybe for the time being but what if we run across something immune to fire."

"True enough Angela but for the time being I would love a truckload of fiery and savoury Molotov."

Angela snorted at that as she replied with a smile on her face, "Me too Ryan, me too."